Greasy Fork

Really needs an option to hide your user agent

It's nice that it shows by default, but it's also kind of a huge privacy leak and should be optional.

Every age has its superstitions. However in the context of this forum it's not any more of a privacy leak than your nick name. Those who are concerned with privacy already use browsers/extensions that randomize their user agent string along with other fingerprintable tokens. AFAIK 90-99% of people aren't concerned. They're already successfully tracked by ads or social trackers.

But faking it doesn't stop it from showing in previous posts, though. As for other trackers, those are easily blocked and aren't public like the forums here are. This is a really non-standard feature and should at least be user-configurable.

As for Firefox, you can add one line into about:config general.useragent.override -> Mozilla/7.0 (Windows NT 12.3; rv:128.0) Gecko/32222323 Firefox/128.0 don't know how to do it in Chrome

@JasonBarnabe said: You send your user agent to every site you visit, not sure how this would be considered a privacy leak.

There is a potential for fingerprinting though, so I filed https://github.com/JasonBarnabe/UserAgent/issues/2

But I don't send it to everyone else that visits said site. I only send it to the site itself, not to the thousands of people that view the page.